You spend half an hour going through your crush's pictures to see if anyone ever tagged them in anything from that party a few weeks ago that they didn't post about themselves which was weird because they almost always post at least a few pictures when they go out. You start building a web of everyone you know was there and friend requesting all of them, desperate to see if anyone posted pictures that might give you a hint... A mere glimpse into what Nancy was doing that night. Was she with Peter? Was she with Joe? Was she lying about going out? I bet it was Joe. That fucking douchebag.
I am glad I am back to using mostly anonymous social media like lemmy. Fuck me I spent almost the first two decades of being online since the late 90s not revealing much about myself online to being suckered (like many people were) into being more open. Biggest fucking mistake I made online.
I really am kinda glad that the only ads I get now are for highly boring investments and insurance, meaning maybe my digital info footprint is not as big as it was and thus individualized ads aren't possible for me.
October 2008. I remember exactly... because I had an economics professor in university who started her classes by writing the Dow Jones on the chalkboard. One day I came and I noted that the number had dropped significantly from the day before, she told me 'we haven't seen a drop that big since 1929'.
Yeah... and just 10 months prior I had another professor tell me that the economy was in such boom that it was making the post-WW2 economic boom look tame... yeah...
I remember it before election day. The drop in stock market prices. I know because I also remember a lot of people saying that Obama would never be president while people were still scrambling to make sense of the crash.
I remember when "writing on a friend's wall" was literal. Every artistic friend, and even some non-artistic ones, I had, had a wall in their room everyone was allowed to write/draw on.
Ooh, I need to make one of those in my house. Both because it would be fun for friends and family (including the kid's friends and our nieces & nephews) and the regression back to analog would satisfy some little petty yet righteous part of my brain that makes me avoid Facebook.
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ianfraserkrillmaster@midwest.social · 41 pts · 332d
just ten years each of which lasted 1.8 years
artifex@piefed.social · 12 pts · 332d
No, I think they were each a year except for 2020-21, which lasted for 10 years.
dick_fineman@discuss.online · 24 pts · 331d
Hate to tell you, but that's closer to 20 years than it is 10.
bytesonbike@discuss.online · 4 pts · 331d
I still think of SNES games as 10 years ago.
Quexotic@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 330d
socsa@piefed.social · 23 pts · 332d
You spend half an hour going through your crush's pictures to see if anyone ever tagged them in anything from that party a few weeks ago that they didn't post about themselves which was weird because they almost always post at least a few pictures when they go out. You start building a web of everyone you know was there and friend requesting all of them, desperate to see if anyone posted pictures that might give you a hint... A mere glimpse into what Nancy was doing that night. Was she with Peter? Was she with Joe? Was she lying about going out? I bet it was Joe. That fucking douchebag.
tetris11@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 331d
You've gotten help since then...?
socsa@piefed.social · 2 pts · 331d
I deleted Facebook in like 2008
kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 19 pts · 332d
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org · 3 pts · 331d
I liked MySpace. To me it was mainly a site to discover music. A lot switched to facebook around 2007. I never did and i don't regret it.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 1 pts · 331d
I hated Facebook, too. I did end up using it for a few years starting in 2015, but I actually regret doing that.
shawn1122@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 332d
Every college aged white woman's drip from 2005 to 2012.
dontpanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 331d
Just missing the PSL
MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 331d
And the North Face zip up.
AppleTea@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 331d
When I was on facebook back then, I would see boomers making posts talking about the 1950s in the same way.
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org · 14 pts · 331d
Remember drinking out of a hose? And openly hating black people?
Drusas@fedia.io · 11 pts · 332d
The fuck are jeggings?
CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 332d
Leggings that look like jeans.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 3 pts · 331d
And how do you call jeans that look like leggings?
Baggie@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 331d
Leans obviously
tetris11@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 331d
what about jeans that end up as leggings the lower you go?
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 331d
Those were called Z cavariccis in the eighties.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 331d
I irrationally hate this word in so many ways I previously thought were foreign to me.
Baggie@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 330d
I'm happy I could be instrumental in exploring your full emotional range!
kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 332d
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 331d
As a disciple of Sir Mix-A-Lot, I firmly disagree.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 332d
Exhibit A: Fuck around, 2007.
Exhibit B : Find out, 2025; just look at the current state of the world.
I got off facebook as soon as they asked me for IRL ID. The rest of the fuckheads should have done the same.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 2 pts · 331d
I haven't logged into my Facebook page in ages.
NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 332d
Life was not good. That's literally when most Americans started to melt their brains with social media and hyper individualism.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 2 pts · 331d
I am glad I am back to using mostly anonymous social media like lemmy. Fuck me I spent almost the first two decades of being online since the late 90s not revealing much about myself online to being suckered (like many people were) into being more open. Biggest fucking mistake I made online.
I really am kinda glad that the only ads I get now are for highly boring investments and insurance, meaning maybe my digital info footprint is not as big as it was and thus individualized ads aren't possible for me.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 332d
Melt where brains?
underscores@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 332d
nah I hated Facebook, hard pass
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 331d
Ok then, MySpace. And don't lie that you didn't copy and paste html code from a sketchy site just to post similarly cringe shit.
underscores@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 330d
I never used my space but I thought those kinds of pages were neat
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com · 5 pts · 331d
wasn't 2007 the housing bubble recession
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 5 pts · 331d
Yeah... and just 10 months prior I had another professor tell me that the economy was in such boom that it was making the post-WW2 economic boom look tame... yeah...
Jumbie@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 331d
December 2007.
It was still under Bush II.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 2 pts · 331d
I remember it before election day. The drop in stock market prices. I know because I also remember a lot of people saying that Obama would never be president while people were still scrambling to make sense of the crash.
Quexotic@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 330d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprime_mortgage_crisis
Sorta began in 06, got bad, in 07, and peaked in 08.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 4 pts · 331d
I remember when "writing on a friend's wall" was literal. Every artistic friend, and even some non-artistic ones, I had, had a wall in their room everyone was allowed to write/draw on.
Zink@programming.dev · 1 pts · 330d
Ooh, I need to make one of those in my house. Both because it would be fun for friends and family (including the kid's friends and our nieces & nephews) and the regression back to analog would satisfy some little petty yet righteous part of my brain that makes me avoid Facebook.
Sparkles@fedia.io · 4 pts · 332d
Needs a belt, sweater layer, and statement necklace.
MotoAsh@piefed.social · 4 pts · 332d
OP is part of the problem. Feeding social media until it could become an unstoppable force.